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diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt index c6a269b7e..315683a6d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt @@ -145,6 +145,32 @@ brings your index file and the working tree back to that state, and resets the tip of the branch to that commit. ------------ +Interrupted workflow:: ++ +You can get interrupted by an ungent fix request while you are +still in the middle of a large change. The files in your +working tree are not in any shape to be committed yet, but you +need to get to the other branch for a quick bugfix. ++ +------------ +$ git checkout feature ;# you were working in "feature" branch and +$ work work work ;# got interrupted +$ git commit -a -m 'snapshot WIP' <1> +$ git checkout master +$ fix fix fix +$ git commit ;# commit with real log +$ git checkout feature +$ git reset --soft HEAD^ ;# go back to WIP state <2> +$ git reset <3> + +<1> This commit will get blown away so a throw-away log message is OK. +<2> This removes the 'WIP' commit from the commit history, and makes + your working tree in the state just before you made that snapshot. +<3> After <2>, the index file still has all the WIP changes you + committed in <1>. This sets it to the last commit you were + basing the WIP changes on. +------------ + Author ------ Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> and Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> @@ -156,4 +182,3 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. GIT --- Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite - |